Improvement in self-feed foe caeding engines



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Letters Patent No. 61,219, dated January 15, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN SELF-FEED FOB. GARDING ENGINES.

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T0 ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, R. W. LEWIS, of Beacon Falls, in the. county of NewHaven, and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement inSelf-Feed for Wool-Cards; and I do herebyv declare the following,

when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, and the lettersof reference marked thereon, to be i a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of thisspecication, and represent, in-

Figure-1, a side view of two main cylinders, with my improvementconnected.

Figure 2, a top view of the same; and in Figure 3, a longitudinalsection.

In cards, as heretofore constructed, the outside strand of roving, a'sit comes from the do'er, is so imperfeet as to require to be recarded,and is termed waste roving A;` thus, from a main cylinde1with forty-twodoier rings, one-twenty-rstpart of the work performed by the machine islost. To overcome this is the object; of my invention, which co'nsistsin an arrangement for returning the two outside or waste rovings fromthe outside edge of the main cylinder to the second breaker, and using`the' same as .though it were of the original A stock. l

To enable others skilled in the art to construct and use my improvement,I will proceed to describe the samefas illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings. l

A and A are two main cylinders; B, the doifer rings, constructed'andarranged upon their respective. frames C in the usual manner. In use thedoer rings are forty-two in numher; butin the illustration of myinvention I have shown a less number, each ring forming a strand ofroving-the two outer ones of which are waste. To avoid this waste, Itake the two outer rovings from the ina-inf cylinder A'hy means ofdoffer rings d on a cylinder D; thence, by a Creeper, E, or itsequivalent, carried by cylinders vI" F, the waste roving is taken fromthe doer ring al and carried to the maincylinder A of the secondbreaker, and is there wrought into perfect roving as'the originalstock;'and thus in a' main .cylinder a savingof ive per cent. is made.The creeper E, Ihere represent as formed from a strip of common cardclothing, or maybe an equivalent device, which will transfer the wasteroving from the doffer ring d. The ,said Creeper E and doier ring d arecaused to revolve in the direction denoted by the arrows by connectionwith the powei` which drives the main cylinder. It will be readily seenthat the dolier ring d may be used to advantage t0 remove the WaStCrOviHg When it ifi not immediately transferred to the second breaker;and it is also evident that this arrangement is equally applicable tothe second as to the irst cylinder.

I am aware of the machine of McGuirk and Gole, -for* carrying the wasteroving to the second breaker; but it will be observed that in theirinvention the waste roving is not taken directly from the main cylinder,as

in my invention.

Having therefore thus fully described my invention, what I claim as newand useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isv 1. The doifcrring 0l, arranged in combination with the main cylinder A, so as to taketherefrom the outside or waste roving.

2. The combination of the'creeper E with the doier rings d and the maincylinder of second breaker, substantially in the manner described, so asto receive the waste roving directly from the main cylinder and transferit to the second breaker, substantially as set forth.

l R. W. LEWIS. Witnesses JOHN WoLrn, J. E. JOHNSON.

